Safety-pin



(No Model.)

M, PRISEN. SAFETY PIN.

No. 513,563. Patented Jan. 30, 1894.

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SAFETY-PlN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 513,563, dated. January 30, 1894.

Application filed May 16, 1893, Serial No. 4:74AM. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MALCOLM FRIsEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, county of Passaic, Etlld State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in safety pins, and it consists in a safety-pin consisting of a single strip of wire bent into the shape hereinafter described and claimed.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved safety pin. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view taken on the line w-w of Fig. 1, the pin proper not being shown, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the recessed end and guide partition of the safety-pin.

In said drawings 0. represents the body of the safety-pin preferably bent as at b into one or more coils and provided with the pin 0 proper, ending in a point 6. At or near this point e the pin 0 is flattened in two planes at right angles to each other to form a ridge or enlargement d. The other end of the body a is bent into a substantially double goose neck f, the sides diverging as at g to form a recess or slot. The end of this goose neck terminates in a curved or yoke shaped portion 9 bent at substantially right angles to the bodyof the pin. This forms a recess or aperture it slightly contracted at its upper end and adapted to receive the pin 0 beyond the ridged and to lock the point e of the said pin within the recess against lateral strain. The other free end of the body a is Wrapped around the body as shown at f and terminates in an upwardly projecting plate or strip 1' preferably flattened. This plate or strip 11 extends at or about the middle line of the recess formed between the double goose-neck f and serves to guide the point e of the pin. into said recess and to prevent it slipping past the same when the pin is closed.

The bond of the goose neck f rises above the plane of the point 71 of the pin and therefore serves as a guard to prevent said point from sticking into the hands or clothing when the pin is closed. The contracted aperture h prevents the point e from being withdrawn from the recess under lateral strain until the point ehas been depressed sufficiently to clear the goose-neck as illustrated in the lower dotted lines of Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- As a new article of manufacture, a safety pin consisting of a single strip of wire having at one end a contracted aperture formed be tween two substantially goose-neck shaped bends in the wire said goose-neck bends being formed by bending the wire upon itself and extending downward to the lower portion of the pin, one end of said wire being wound upon the lower portion of the pin so that it projects upward in the plane of the .center of said contracted aperture, the other traction in the aperture forming a lock for said ridge, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of May, 1893.

MALCOLM FRISEN.

Witnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, HENRY E. EVERDING. 

